Hello and welcome to the Restless History, Dominic. Have you heard the latest exciting news about our live tour?

I have, Dominic. It's actually shocking news. It's shocking but also heartening. But just to remind you the listener, the rest is history is going on a nationwide tour at the end of April 2023.

I say tour but it's for three nights only. We'll be in London on the 25th of April and the historic Drury Lane Theatre. Then we'll be able to Edinburgh the following evening on the 26th of April to play at Usher Hall.

And we will finish on the 30th of April at the Larry in Sulford Greater Manchester. But Tom, the listeners are gacking to know about this shocking news that you have for them about the tour.

Ladies and gentlemen, I can announce that our London live show has now sold out. I repeat, all 2000 seats, yes 2000 seats at Drury Lane Theatre are now sold out.

So not even frozen the musical. The show that we are of course replacing at Drury Lane, not even frozen sold out that quickly.

I can imagine Elsa listening to this right now, fuming at the very thought of the rest is history stealing her snowy thunder. But Elsa, all I will say to you is let it go.

People can go to both shows. But just to emphasize, that's our first live date already sold out. And tickets are selling incredibly quickly for Sulford and Edinburgh too.

So if you do want to come, please buy your ticket right now to avoid disappointment. Now, if you've never been to one of our live shows, what a treat awaits you. We have an incredibly inventive approach.

Tom will take the first half and he will be running through his repertoire of Marilyn Monroe songs and I do be the do thanks for that. And I will be picking up after the interval with the PowerPoint presentation on the economic policies of Stanley Baldwin.

It's an absolute riots fun for all the family. So these are our first ever shows outside London as a podcast. So we'll be putting on a tour de force. I think Dominic is the only word for it in both greater Manchester and the Scottish Capitol.

There'll be impressions, perhaps some Uruguayan pipe music and plenty of absolute lads from history here is how you can get tickets. Just go to rest is history pod dot com. It is very, very, very straightforward. That is www.restishistory pod dot com by your tickets now to Sulford and Edinburgh before it's too late.

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What was that? Well, a lot of our listeners will know Tom because they're more sophisticated and cosmopolitan than you are. That was welcome to the rest of history with me, Dominic Sambrook and my pitiful servant to save Tom Holland. I thought it was probably something a lot of those lines.

Dominic, let's get this straight. You've never learnt Japanese. I imagine you've never in your life before spoken it. Tom, you are so wrong. We've got a Japanese specialist who's shortly to come on the who will tell you they don't call me Tom the master of tongues for nothing.

We've had Portuguese. We've had all kinds of languages from me. Yes. You have never spoken with Japanese in your life. We have as our special guest, the senior lecturer in Asian history at the University of Edinburgh, the author of two hugely acclaimed books on Japan, Japan's story and search for nation, and the Japanese history in 20 lives, Chris Harding, Chris, you're still there. You haven't run away in horror and shot.

I'm not enjoying myself so far. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming on and thank you for braving that. So today's subject obviously is Japan. So we're continuing with our story.

We don't have the courage. You don't have the courage to ask Chris how good that Japanese was. Chris, how good was such a Japanese? It was pretty good actually. Yes.

I think we should end this podcast right now and start again. The producers should do that moment and put on YouTube. Oh my God. Unbelievable. That's terrible.

Chris, we've asked you on to do basically the impossible, which is to sum up the entire sweep of Japanese history. We did a very fleeting episode, didn't we, on Kubikans attempted invasion of Japan.

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